Google aims to bridge Android, cloud computing with robotics | ZDNet
Cloud computing and robotics could create one fine mashup that preserves battery life, adds capabilities and allows robots to form groups.
That’s the high-level takeaway from Google’s I/O conference this week. Google launched rosjava, a ROS (robot OS) framework in Java that is Android compatible. The move coupled with Google’s Android Open Accessory API, which aims to connect a bevy of devices—phones, bikes, cameras, clocks and other household items highlights how it is positioning the Android operating system as a robotics tool.
rosjava - An implementation of ROS in pure Java with Android support. - Google Project Hosting
rosjava is the first pure Java implementation of ROS.
From ROS.org: ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.
Developed at Google in cooperation with Willow Garage, rosjava enables integration of Android and ROS compatible robots.
Collected from: rosjava - An implementation of ROS in pure Java with Android support. - Google Project Hosting
Collected from: YouTube - Google I/O 2011: Cloud Robotics
Collected from: Cloud Enabled Robots
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- Willow Garage is a robotics research lab and technology incubator devoted to developing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications.[1] It was started in late 2006 by Scott Hassan, an early Google employee who helped develop Google's technology.[2][3] Steve Cousins is the president and CEO. Willow Garage is located in Menlo Park, California.[4]
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- We're working on software from the lowest level with ROS (Robot Operating System) to the highest and in-between with our collection of ROS-enabled software packages.
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- The library, tools, and hardware that come with Android devices arewell-suited for robotics. Smartphones and tablets are sophisticated computation devices with useful sensors and great user-interaction capabilities. Android devices can also be extended with additional sensor and actuators thanks to the Open Accessory and Android @ HomeAPIs thatwere announced at Google I/O,
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- ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more.
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